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That "negativity" aspect is common in other fields too: imagine you are nowadays an economist, a journalist, an architect, a footballer, a politician, an activi
by begueradj 2y ago
That "negativity" aspect is common in other fields too: imagine you are nowadays an economist, a journalist, an architect, a footballer, a politician, an activist of some ideology or even an artist: would you escape that negativity ?
Negativity is not related to any industry. It is rather inherent to our nature. Because it is important to our survival. Our brain always seeks for signs of what may go wrong or what is actually wrong to help us protect or improve ourselves.
- sanderjd 2y agoInteresting question! I think if I were a journalist, by nature I would be looking for positive optimistic stories on my beat, because that's legitimately what I find more interesting in the world. (I kind of think of it like entropy; the default is for things to be hard and to work out poorly, so I think it's more interesting when that doesn't happen.) But I think if that were really my job, rather than just a passion project, I would be subject to the same financial incentives as any other journalist, which may very well drive me to more pessimistic stories, as those seem to drive more engagement and thus more dollars.
- begueradj 2y agoThen why any random mainstream newspaper we open, we find much more negative news that positive ones ? :) Actually that is what journalists do to keep us addicted to media: spreading negativity and anxiety (energy crisis, food crisis, climate crisis, security crisis, war crisis, refugees crisis, inflation crisis ...etc). Haha :)